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Description:
Type: Barkentine, composite rigging, 15 sails, 1600 m2
IMO: N/A
MMSI: N/A
Miramar ID: 6109421, never obtained a IMO number
Callsign: ORFA
Flag: Belgium
Homeport: Antwerp
Owner:
GRT: 770 tons
NRT: 514 tons
DWT:
LOA: 78.40 m
BOA: 11.90 m
Draught: 4.50 m
Built: 1932, Ramage & Ferguson, Leith, UK
YN: 269, last ship made on the shipyard
Hull: steel
Engine: 1 auxiliary diesel Burmeister & Wain 4SA 6-cilinder, 500 HP, made by John Cockerill, Seraing, Belgium
Propeller: 1, 2-bladed, put in vertical position to reduce drag when under sail
Speed, engine: 8-11 knots
Speed, sails: 13 knots
Named after the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594)
Steel barquentine designed by Baron Adrien de Gerlache (1866-1934) officer of the Belgian Royal Navy who led the Belgian Antartic Expedition (1897-1899) and built in 1932 in Great Britain. Used as trainingvessel for the Antwerp Maritime College untill 1960. Now it is a museum located in the port of Ostend. Occasionaly a short trip at sea is made with volunteers as crew.
For more info www.zeilschip-mercator.be
En route to shipyard for a 1 year major overhaul
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